I had a lot of fun compiling this mixtape! I love every one of these scenes, and it was hard both to file it down to just 19 songs and not make them all ‘80s throwbacks. Anyway, rather than citing which albums the songs came from, I referenced the movie soundtrack instead... for the sake of clarity, I guess. ENJOY!!

note from bat: I think I covered everything here. The electronic (Boards of Canada, M83), the foreign (Zazen Boys), the older (Nick Cave), the newer (65 days of static), the avant garde (Battles) and the simple (Tegan and Sara).

note from meghan: I noticed a lot of these are about breaking up and what not, but there's always the tinge of being hopelessly in this perpetual state of hardcore love, then a pretty song at the end for those days you couldn't love each other more. Enjoy, this one breaks my heart a little.

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